Blake Shelton to Exit ‘The Voice’ After Season 23: Particulars

Say goodbye to the nation crooner! Blake Shelton will exit The Voice following season 23 after 12 years on the NBC sequence.

“I’ve been wrestling with this for some time and I’ve determined that it’s time for me to step away from The Voice after season 23,” Shelton, 46, mentioned in an official NBC press launch on Tuesday, October 11. “This present has modified my life in each method for the higher and it’ll all the time really feel like house to me. It’s been a hell of a trip over these 12 years of chair turns and I need to thank everybody at The Voice from NBC, each producer, the writers, musicians, crew and catering folks, you’re the finest.”

The “Residence” artist, who has been on the singing competitors as a coach since its premiere in April 2011, joked that it takes “loads of work, ardour and grownup drinks to drag off a reside present twice per week” earlier than noting that he’s made “lifelong bonds” with host Carson Daly and “each single considered one of my fellow coaches.” (Shelton met his spouse, Gwen Stefani, on the truth sequence in 2014 and the pair tied the knot seven years later.)

“I’ve to present an enormous shoutout to the singers – the ‘Voices’ who come on this stage season after season and amaze us with their expertise and a particular because of those that selected me to be their coach,” he continued within the Tuesday assertion. “ Lastly, it’s about y’all, the followers, who watch and assist these artists, us coaches and everybody at The Voice chasing their goals. It wouldn’t occur with out you!”

Alongside Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Inexperienced, Shelton and his costars made up the unique workforce of mentors on The Voice. The nation star at present holds the title of most wins within the present’s historical past with eight victories for his workforce: Season 2 (Jermaine Paul), Season 3 (Cassadee Pope), Season 4 (Danielle Bradbery), Season 7 (Craig Wayne Boyd), Season 11 (Sundance Head), Season 13 (Chloe Kohanski), Season 18 (Todd Tilghman), and Season 20 (Cam Anthony).

Information of the Oklahoma native’s departure on Tuesday got here together with the announcement of season 23, which is able to premiere in spring 2023. Along with Shelton, Kelly Clarkson will return to guage, with Niall Horan and Likelihood the Rapper making their Voice debuts. Daly, 49, may even be again to host.

“I’m excited to be becoming a member of this season of The Voice as a coach,” Horan, 29, mentioned within the assertion. “I’m trying ahead to assembly and mentoring the brand new crop of expertise whereas we battle it out with the opposite groups!”

For his half, Likelihood the Rapper, additionally 29, shared that he was able to “assist different artists get to the following degree and profit from this life-changing alternative.”